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Buying From a Startup Requires Faith But Purchasing Managers Take Zero Risk

by Larry Chiang on June 11, 2015

Shane Gibson (@shanegibson)
Sales is about creating an environment where an act of faith can take place. Social media helps this by allowing trust building dialogue.

By Larry Chiang

Selling is hard
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Selling for a Fortune 100 company is hard. 
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Selling as your new startup is harder yet. As an engineer, I’ve done both. As a teacher and curator, I see startups attempting to sell. 
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Failing as an engineer is tough but super rewarding. Auren Hoffman wrote of the 10x productivity effect for Econ majors. 

Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
LESSONS #Ch6 is SALES #Ch11 is Failing Fwd via @aurenblog.summation.net/2011/11/fail-t…

“It is a 2,000x productivity effect if you’re a CSmajorCRO or csMajorCEO”

— Larry Chiang
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Whales. Trying to land one large whale of a customer avoids the pain by delaying the pain. 
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
Trying to hard to land a whale?? (aka complete a HAIL MARY in the 1st qtr) #Ch6 (sales); #CS183s (CS for sales) pic.twitter.com/PjjoIVwYWG
Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
5/ Reduce to the recockulous. Offer a full 100% rebate (#LCRRM). Do an #InternalEscrow. Hard sell the free #ENGR145s

Mitigate and eliminate risk for the purchasing manager!

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“Sales is about creating an environment where an act of faith can take place.”
–Shane Gibson 

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